Belikin is the national Beer of Belize, by the way.
It was started by Bavarian immigrants in the 1940s and is now a monopoly operated by the Bowen family, one of Belize's main oligarchical clans that own just about everything of value. They also bottle local Coca-Cola.
It is illegal to import soft drinks or beer into Belize, such is that particular family's power and influence.
According to CONCACAF.com the DomRep has just started their first national professional soccer league. I think its still more of a baseball nation.
The camera angles are something of a luxury, fellas. For the Cayman Islands away leg there was one static camera at halfway that seemed to have a very narrow and slow turning circle.
The Jaguars current coach is a white American called Ian(?) Mork. If you listen to the "informed" commentary from the stands at home games he seems to show some bias toward picking caribbean players from the eastern districts over the latino guys from the West.
A big problem in a small country of around 300,000 is that any game the Jaguars play at home is played in front of a crowd of 'supporters' who have grown up with the players and still live in the same villages as them.
Thus the abuse when it comes is very personal and you can see individual players (all of whom have on field nom-de-guerres like Blasta, Tillyman and Yellaman) wilting under sustained criticism.
This is especially true of poor performances at home like last round's dire 0-0 versus the Cayman Islands where the crowd turned against the boys from about the 20th minute.
Consequently I think the Jaguars play better away from Belize.
Actually former Newcastle, WBA and Charlton striker Andy Hunt (and his wife, former 90s MTV VJ, Simone) runs a jungle resort just across the river from me.
He was telling me he played a few games for the Belmopan Bandits in the Belize Premier League when he first got here.
The pace was not a problem for him at 39, but the surfaces and the clogging/random acts of on-field violence were and he called it quits pretty quick.
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